Firefly's Best 15 Chinese Curses
Feb. 18th, 2013 04:28 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithIn Mandarin and English, black gods of space bless freedom of speech. Those of you who are sensitive to dirty words, don't open the jack-in-the-box with the boxing glove in it.
I should ever be half so good in my crafting of artisan-quality vulgarities as this.
I should ever be half so good in my crafting of artisan-quality vulgarities as this.
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Date: 2013-02-18 12:36 pm (UTC)*laugh*
Date: 2013-02-18 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-18 11:24 pm (UTC)Also, I always wanted to learn Chinese...
Yes...
Date: 2013-02-18 11:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-18 01:01 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2013-02-18 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-18 02:40 pm (UTC)*laugh*
Date: 2013-02-18 06:45 pm (UTC)Anybody can drop the F-bomb. I use it in stories occasionally, with characters it fits. But I'm far more impressed with wits who make up their own, or with languages that have really colorful expressions.
One favorite from the Whispering Sands desert is, "Why don't you go bang the bandit's camel again? I don't think he felt you the first time!" It's often a reference to someone's egregious mistake, which they may be about to compound. It also draws on another common phrase, "the bandit's fucked-floppy camel," implying that getting the beast's attention may take some serious effort.
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Date: 2013-02-18 05:31 pm (UTC)By the way, the Putonghua translations are quite free, #4 doesn't mention higher powers at all (it is 'my mother and...' and it feels rather strange to read someone cursing this way), and N.1 doesn't mention 'Tuesday' anywhere, it just translates the other two words.
Alas!
Date: 2013-02-20 04:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-18 08:18 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2013-02-18 09:21 pm (UTC)